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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. MarkLogic vs. Sadas Engine vs. Teradata Aster

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.marklogic.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.marklogic.comwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCCRi and othersMarkLogic Corp.SADAS s.r.l.Teradata
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014200120062005
Current release5.0.0, January 20244.0.5, February 202411.0, December 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ScalaC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL92yesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnoR packages
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layeryesnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes, with Range Indexesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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